ARNOUX GUY , BOUTET DE MONVEL ROGER (6 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Guy Arnoux (illustrateur). 1st Edition. A landscape stitched booklet, no jacket as issued containing 12 fine colored pochoir woodcut plates each facing a page of French text thanking the US for their contribution to WW1. First two plates are perforated by New York Public Library , library card pocket pasted in, and several stamps by the library denoting "not to be bought or sold" Oh well ! I bought two copies at auction and you should buy one of them.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Text by Roger Boutet de Monvel. Illustrations by Guy Arnoux. Oblong 16mo. String-tied illustrated wrappers. Dampstaining visible on first two leaves, foxing throughout, else about very good. Praise for the American allies with text and 12 illustrations in color inspired by World War One.

(30)pp. 12 full-page pochoir color plates. Oblong sm. 8vo. Dec. self-wraps., finished in color pochoir. Glassine d.j. Printed on watermarked heavy laid paper.

Wraps. Etat : Good. First edition. With an original pencil and watercolor drawing of a soldier with a cigarette signed by Arnoux on the front blank. Oblong, 13 by 16.5 cm. Unpaginated, with 12 pochoir plates celebrating various aspects of American military life and the American entry into the First World War. On the facing page of each plate (the verso of the prior plate) is a paragraph relating to the image. These short pieces are anecdotal, allusive, imaginative, literary and/or lyrical. They do not directly explain the image but rather offer an literary counterpart to it. The front cover is heavily foxed, and the foxing continues, gradually lightening, until the fourth leaf or so. After that the leaves are clean until the final blanks, when light foxing resumes. There is also a two inch closed tear on the front cover, repaired on the inside cover with archival tape. From the front this tear is not conspicuous. Original tasseled string tie intact.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Carnet d'un Permissionnaire, Roger Boutet de Monvel illustrated by Guy Arnoux. Pub. Paris, Chez Devambez 1917. Landscape 165mm x 120mm. 11 pochoir plates. The title translates as 'Notebook of a soldier on leave'. String bound, minor grubbiness to covers, but a really charming little publication. Roger Boutet de Monvel [1879-1951], a famous Parisian dandy spent much of his career writing on fashion for such publications as the Gazette du Bon Ton. Called up for army service at the beginning of WW1 he was quickly discharged with a leg injury. The Carnet was the first of three publications for Devambez during the war. 6 This title, charmingly illustrated and produced is a series of vignettes from the Home Front, each showing an aspect of life well behind the trenches. Characters display frustration at the disruption to their lives caused by the war or offer 'advice' as to how to win it but demonstrate little knowledge of modern warfare. The Zeppelin attacks on Paris are a source of entertainment rather than a threat and there is disappointment when they don't show up. A Senegalese soldier is the subject of amusement when he fails to understand what a toothbrush is for. British soldiers are prominent on the streets of Paris and de Monvel, characteristically for a fashion writer comments on their highly polished leather. Underneath the amusing illustrations and fey prose, there is a hard satirical bite to these vignettes. A parting piece titled 'L'Heureux Filleul' - The Happy Godson - chronicles the progress of the war in terms of the availability of life's luxuries provided by one's godmother. 'One cannot help but look forward to 1918 with a certain unease.' At the time of publication, the war was still going on and the outcome was uncertain. By no means a heavy-handed propaganda document, de Monvel catches something here of the gap between the soldier and those back home. In its own way, the Carnet is all the more powerful for its light touch.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Text by Roger Boutet de Monvel. Illustrations by Guy Arnoux. Oblong 16mo. Stitched illustrated wrappers. Chipping and dampstaining pretty much contained to the wrappers, which are detached, thus good only, internally about fine. Wonderfully satiric text with 11 illustrations in color inspired by World War One.